House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday that Democrats should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within the caucus are a source of strength for the party.
Pelosi said Democrats will produce an issue agenda for the 2006 elections but it will not include a position on Iraq. There is consensus within the party that President Bush has mismanaged the war and that a new course is needed, but House Democrats should be free to take individual positions, she sad.
“There is no one Democratic voice . . . and there is no one Democratic position,” Pelosi said in an interview with Washington Post reporters and editors.
Talk about a spin job! In effect, Pelosi is saying that because the Democrats can’t make up their mind about the Iraq War, they’ll just not address the issue at all officially. As usual, all they can agree on is that Bush is wrong. Months and months of yelling and screaming that Bush mislead us, Bush lied to us, Bush this and Bush that, and their official position is now “We don’t know.” Plus, even though they don’t know what they think, they’ll continue to criticize the President no matter what he does.
I guess their campaign slogan next election will be: Vote Democrat – We have no idea about Iraq!
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December 16th, 2005 at 2:41 pm
It is interesting that the Dem criticisms are always vague – Bush screwed up…. Tells us a lot… How about some specifics, critics? What EXACTLY is screwed up, and exactly how do you propose to do things differently? Or admit you are just clueless on issues of national security or morality, commitment and making hard choices. Pelosi, time for you to retire and admit you are irrelevant. And dead wrong.